Monday, September 08, 2008

Ahhh, the end of weekends

Other than hair and cleaning and scrubbing and tennis viewing and videos and DVDs, here's what I accomplished:I only did the backstitching on this one. My buddy Diane did the butterfly but was feeling skittish of all the bsing. I actually enjoyed it. Shhhh, bs patterns everywhere might start wandering towards me.

This specialty-stitch tree is from Gift of Stitching magazine. I'm not going to mention the designer, because I prefer to think that this was an abberation for her, but OMG this pattern was TERRIBLE. I think it ended up that 2 of the rows were charted completely wrong as compared to the model, another row was charted with an impossible to stitch order of stitches, the "numbering" on the legs of each stitch were unreadable, and the only instructions accompanying the chart were for finishing not stitching. In short, it sucked.

And another Charland wobbly tree -- apparently they wobble while I picture them because thay always turn out blurry:

I'm with you, the bs'ing on the butterfly would have been the quickest part.

Regarding your specialty stitch tree... I stitched the same design back in April, from LNS monthly class. LNS owner's instructions were great. Funny thing is I pulled mine out Sunday night so I could stitch another one for PALS.

You're really getting stuck into those ornies! They all look stunning. Hmm... I stitched that three from GoS last year, but don't remember having any problems with it. I guess I'm lucky in that I never read the instructions, lol!